Example sentences of "had be [vb pp] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the time of the preliminary naval bombardment the Turks had only two divisions at the Dardanelles ; these had been raised to four when the naval attack began and six by the time Hamilton made his first landings , giving the defenders a numerical superiority of six to five divisions . |
| 2 | It was suggested that the League should concentrate on recreational and educational activities and that the age limit , which had been raised to 25 in 1926 , should be progressively reduced to 11 by 1939 . |
| 3 | They had been increased to six a year ; five for the Apprentices , conducted by the Demonstrator and one , the General Herborising , for Members only . |
| 4 | Since then the personnel of the army had been increased to 100,000 and there was a marked deficiency in major items of equipment . |
| 5 | The extraordinary thing was that the man who was begging me to go and tell the world about this was expecting at any moment to hear that he had been appointed to one of the most senior jobs in the Iraqi government . |
| 6 | The story of a plot had been leaked to various newspapers , and on Sept. 19 the authorities put on public display various small firearms , improvised grenades , loudhailers , photocopying equipment and other items which they claimed were being used to make weapons . |
| 7 | He had been lost to all sense of preservation , both for himself and for Grainne . |
| 8 | At the other end of the scale three cases allegedly had been limited to one isolated incident . |
| 9 | All Kate 's previous sexual experience had been limited to clumsy caresses which she 'd had no difficulty in resisting . |
| 10 | Until then , because of the Ecclesiastical Exemption , which exempts churches in use from listed building controls , grants had been limited to secular buildings on the principle ‘ no control : no money ’ . |
| 11 | Even in its best days the circulation of the magazine had been limited to some eight hundred subscribers ( most of whom were " Eliot watchers " , according to Stephen Spender ) and by the time it had ceased publication that number had dropped to a couple of hundred . |
| 12 | A placing in which selected shareholders ( usually investing institutions ) are invited to buy up to 15 million ( this had been limited to 3 million until 1986 ) of additional equity . |
| 13 | Communications Minister Krzystof Kilian reported on Nov. 9 that there were 41 illegal broadcasting stations operating in Poland and that temporary licences had been granted to 19 radio and television stations which were run primarily by the Roman Catholic Church . |
| 14 | All three had been assigned to Long Kesh Prison near Lisburn to await trial . |
| 15 | Even after projects had been assigned to particular producers , directors and writers , they remained studio properties , discussed at round-table discussions involving all the key people who worked there . |
| 16 | There were two decisions which were binding where the rule of privilege had been applied to copied documents : The Palermo ( 1883 ) 9 PD 6 , and Watson v Cammel Laird & Co ( Shipbuilders and Engineers ) Ltd ( 1959 ) 1 WLR 702 . |
| 17 | Here , it seemed , some labour had been applied to physical comforts , although there was little evidence of efficient housekeeping . |
| 18 | Victorian market towns tend to be regarded — if they are thought of at all — as slumbering relics of the past , places of little account that had been relegated to minor status by the new industrial cities . |
| 19 | In 1987 the Long Gilt future accounted for more than half the trades on LIFFE but , while still trading strongly , it had been relegated to third place by 1990 , having been outstripped by both the new German Government bond ( " Bund " ) contract and the Short Sterling contract in importance . |
| 20 | The promises to cut taxes had been brushed to one side , but it was unlikely that the government would wish to fight the next election against a background of undertakings that would entail their actually being increased . |
| 21 | Emma had a spell at a small , local Welsh school then she had been sent to one of London 's most exclusive girls ' preparatory schools , off Sloane Square . |
| 22 | But the water company spokesman said letters had been sent to all tenants letting them know what was happening . |
| 23 | And he always seemed to be campaigning vigorously and futilely for some boy or other who had been sent to borstal for a criminal offence . |
| 24 | Boy loved this letter not only because the man it had been sent to shared his new name , but because it was addressed by an older man to a lovelier , younger one . |
| 25 | The notice of payment of tax as determined by the General Commissioners had been sent to this address . |
| 26 | Debray , later a minister in France 's socialist President Mitterrand 's Government , had spent time with Guevara in the jungle , and had been sentenced to thirty years by the Bolivians . |
| 27 | The men , convicted on espionage charges , had been sentenced to 15-year prison terms in 1987 . |
| 28 | On Oct. 7 the Iranian government released Jon Pattis , 54 , an engineer who had been sentenced to 10 years on spying charges in 1987 . |
| 29 | Huang had been sentenced to 10 years in prison in 1990 after being found guilty of raising funds to promote Taiwanese independence [ see p. 37917 ] . |
| 30 | MAHA Sa'ad-ul-Din Banat , a 35-year-old Syrian national and mother of four who had been sentenced to 200 lashes by the Shari'a Court of Expedient Affairs in Riyadh on 10 March 1992 , received the lashes in four instalments in a one month period between April and May . |